Obfuscation

Obfuscation is the process of making something deliberately complicated and difficult to understand. It can be done in programming to protect intellectual property.

Obfuscation is often used as a tool on wikis to control the content. Wiki markup that originallly was human-readable can be garbled by templates and the use of the scribunto extension to use the lua language, which is more difficult for the layperson or casual editor to understand.